4/24/2008

Blakely Mattern Reflects On U20 Camp Experience

Rising junior defender Blakely Mattern recently was invited to participate in the United State U-20 Women's National Team Camp, held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. After returning from the week-long experience, Mattern (Simpsonville, S.C.) sat down with GamecocksOnline.com to talk about the experience, Coach DiCicco, flight problems and Weinerschnitzel's. She also spoke about being honored as South Carolina's Co-Female Athlete of the Year, an award she won last Monday after a season in which she became the first sophomore to earn SEC Defensive Player of the Year honors and also became the first Gamecock to earn All-America honors. more